MAD Center: MDO Courses

AOE/ESM 4084 Engineering Design Optimization, and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) This is an elective course for seniors in AOE and ESM departments. The course is also approved for graduate credit, and is typically taken by beginning graduate students as a prerequisite course for the AOE/ESM 5064 "Structural Optimization". A series of optimization tools based on Mathematica programming and Mathematica note books were incorporated into the course demonstrating the methods applied to a multidisciplinary wing design. For more information, contact Dr. Zafer Gürdal or visit his webpage for AOE/ESM 4084.

Aerospace Manufacturing This course exposes the students to various issues involved in manufacturing including the processes, technologies, and costs associated with the manufacture of aircraft, and discuses concepts in design for producibility. For more information contact Dr. William H. Mason or Dr. Michael P. Deisenroth. The 1997 Senior Manufacturing Projects are available on line.

MDO Supporting Courses

	AOE/ESM 4184 Design and Optimization of Composite Materials Design aspects of laminate constitutive relations, coupling and decoupling of in-plane and out-of-plane elastic response. Tailoring of laminated composite materials to meet design requirements on stiffness and strength through the use of graphical and numerical optimization techniques. Introduction to integer programming: branch-and-bound method and genetic algorithms. Stacking sequence design of laminated composite beams and plates via integer programming. This course is normally taught in the spring semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 3024, CE 3404, or ESM 3084 is a prerequisite. The course textbook is also available online: Design and Optimization of Laminated Composite Materials .
	AOE 5024 Vehicle Structures Exact and approximate methods for analysis and design of aerospace and marine structures. Stresses, strains, constitutive equations, boundary value problem, and two dimensional elasticity; torsion; variational methods; virtual work and energy principles; structural mechanics theorems; traditional approximate methods; and laminated plates. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits.
	AOE 5104 Advanced Aero And Hydrodynamics Vector analysis concepts; fluid stress and strain, kinematics of fluid flows including vorticity; dynamics of inviscid incompressible flow; and potential flow theory with applications to lifting and non lifting bodies. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits.
	AOE 5214 Aircraft Dynamics and Control General equations of aero/hydrodynamic vehicular motion including the affects of flexibility and changing mass. Consideration of buoyant, aerodynamic, gravitational and thrust forces, jet damping, thrust offset, and rotating machinery contributions. Reduction of equations to linearized form, aero/hydrodynamic stability derivatives. Stability and response characteristics. Application of classical control theory to aircraft control. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 3134 is a prerequisite.
	AOE/ESM 5064 Structural Optimization Structural optimization via calculus of variations. Application of techniques of mathematical programming to optimize trusses, beams, frames, columns, and other structures. Sensitivity calculations of structural response. Approximation techniques and dual and optimality criteria methods. A background in optimization is necessary. This course is normally taught in the spring semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. For more information visit the webpage for AOE/ESM 5064.

MAD Center: Course Development

In addition, two papers have been published on course development relating to the MAD Center.
	Deisenroth, Michael P. and William H. Mason "Curriculum Development in Aerospace Manufacturing,";Session 0402, 1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996 (this is an Adobe Acrobat file, ASEE has the copyright, and has given permission for this file to be posted here. Their permission is gratefully acknowledged.)
	W.H. Mason, Zafer Gurdal and R.T. Haftka, "Experience in Multidisciplinary Design Education," , ASEE Annual Conference, Monday, June 26, 1995, Anaheim, CA (Conrad Newberry, session chairman: Multidisciplinary Design).